This isn't the one featured on the Wikipedia site but this one is like my Grandmother Clark's! It had a handle about 2' as well as I can guesstimate.
Carpet beater
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A
carpet beater or
carpetbeater (also referred to as a
rug beater or
rugbeater,
mattenklopper,
carpet whip,
rug whip,
clothes-beater,
dust beater or
dustbeater,
carpet duster,
rug duster, or
pillow fluffer, and formerly also as a
carpet cleaner or
rug cleaner) is a
housecleaning tool
that was in common use until the vacuum cleaner became affordable
during the early 20th century. Carpets, rugs, clothes, cushions, and
bedding were hung over a clothesline or railing and the dust and dirt
was beaten out of them. Typically made of wood, rattan,
cane, wicker, spring steel or coiled wire, antique rug beaters have
become very collectible. Modern mass-production versions can also be in
plastic or wire.
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